There is some dispute over "Miss Ladd's" real name:
is it Adalisa Louisa
or Louisa Adalisa; Louise or Louisa; Adalisa, Adalissa, Adelisa, or Adelissa.
Jessie Scott Williams found a card from Aunt Lucinda (Cain) Stith to her
seventeen-year-old niece:

To my niece Louisa Adelissa Hardaway
Some friends may wish thee free from care; others joy and wealth.
Some may wish you blessings rare; long life and perfect health.
My wish for thee is better far; than all others have given.
That when you from this world depart; your soul may rest in
Heaven.
by your loving Aunt
Lucinda C. Stith Dec the 2nd 1882

Several of those wishes came true. Miss Ladd lived to a month
short of
her 92nd birthday. She enjoyed good health most of her life. And I am sure
Aunt Lucinda's wish for her came true.

Walter Lee Scott, was the
son of CHARLES LEE SCOTT (b 1861)
who married (1885) Louisa Adalisa "Miss Ladd"
Hardaway. They lived
on a farm in Stith Valley, Meade County, Kentucky.
In 1908 Walter Lee Scott
married Ruth Fontaine, the daughter
of Charles Beauregard Fontaine and Irene, nee Stith. Ruth
was
teaching at Shumate School at that time. He started farming
on the
Jesse Jones Stith farm in 1909. Jesse Stith's wife Lucinda
[Cain]
[md Oct 6, 1842, adopted five children] and his Grandmother
Margaret [Cain] were sisters and his Grandfather Jim
Hardaway was
buried in a small grave yard on the hill behind the house.
The farm was a part of the
430 acres bought by Richard Stith
[wife Elizabeth Jones] in 1811. Richard, [son of Richard
Stith and
Lucy Hall] was the first Stith to settle in the county and
had
been here since about 1804 [from Virginia].

James Leach Hardaway, Richard Stith and his wife Elizabeth
(Jones) are
all buried on the hill at Walter Scott's farm.

This will not be an all-inclusive record of the Hardaways.
There are too
many of them to name, and sometimes the record is not clear. Laurence Gardiner
of Memphis, Tennessee, was writing THE BOOK, but it may not have been
published. Estie Stith Crabbe wrote that she had already written 45 pages on
just the descendants of Drury Hardaway and Ann Stith! But what happened to her
manuscript, nobody seems to know.
There are several versions about the origin of the name
HARDAWAY. One
story has Thomas Hardaway as an orphan dressed in a green velvet suit, age
six. His real name, according to this tale, was Drayton. He was given the name
'Hardaway' by sailors.

In fact, the earliest HARDAWAYS in Virginia were James
Hardaway, who was
transported by a John Drayton before 1654 and his brother John HARDAWAY,
transported by Richard Tye and Charles Sparrow of Charles City County before
1650, the dates Drayton, Tye and Sparrow claimed land for the Hardaways. It
was common practice to pay somebody's way in order to get land. These claims
may have taken place years after the actual journey occurred, and claimants
may not even know the person whose way they are paying. James and John
Hardaway availed themselves of this opportunity to get land. One story says
the Hardaways came from Blanford, England, and named their plantation
"Blanford".

"By Act of 1784, the original Town of Petersburg
and 3 nearby
lands (1) Town of Blanford, traditionally Blanford Farm of
Hardiway (sic) family from Blanford England, but owned by
Wm.
Poythress ca 1737-48."

Nugent's Abstracts of Land Patents 1623-1800 tell us this:

p 198 Jno HARDAWAY 12 Aug 1650 for transportation of 50 persons
near head of Power's Creek, Charles City County

p 301 James HARDAWAY Nov 25, 1654 for transportation of 40 persons

(No wives listed on immigrants' list so presumably both unmarried)

Virginia Colonial Abstracts

Vol 11?

1658 James HARDAWAY is notified and elected constable for Westover precinct
(For the Fontaines among us, Rev Peter Fontaine became rector of Westover
Parish Church in 1720, where he remained all his life. It was also the home of
William Byrd whose many 'secret' diaries often mention his neighbor Drury
Stith, the father of Jane who married Thomas Hardaway.)

1660, Dec 3, p 254 The est of John HARDAWAY dec'd to pay John Nothway
etc...

(1660) p 87 Thos Roe to give bond for est. of Jo. HARDAWAY and care of the
orphan.

1661 p 276 James HARDAWAY to be excused excessive sickness and lameness

Vol 12.

1662, June 7 James HARDAWAY of "Kermidges" in Charles City County makes over
to John STITH all property real and personnel. Stith
agrees to keep
HARDAWAY in good condition the rest
of his life.

1662, Oct 3 p 30 agst James HARDAWAY the heire and Ex of John HARDAWAY Dec'd

1662/3 Feb James HARDAWAY to pay debt....

p 43 John Stith and James HARDAWAY...

P 45 to pay John Stith his atty to pay...

Aug 20th p 62 Order that Lawrence Biggins render account of estate of Jo:
HARDAWAY dec'd at Orphan's Court
and pay John Stith what is due him.

Vol 13

1664 June 1: Patent for 250 acres at Kermishes Creek to John Stith

1664, 5 Sept p 7 Be it known... the inheritance of 250 acres of land on
Kermishes Creek
descended to me, James HARDAWAY, by the decease of
my late brother John
HARDAWAY wherefore I give 250 acres to my son
John HARDAWAY and his
heirs forever.

(Edward Bland in 1674/75 deeded 8000A to his uncle including "Kimages", got
2000A of the "Kimages" tract from Sarah Bland relict of John, better known as
Berkeley. "Kimages" in Westover Parish, Chas City Co, called Berkeley
Hundred)

1664 Oct 19 by John & Jane Stith to James HARDAWAY. John Stith Jane 'R.' Stith

James Hardaway came to Virginia prior to 1650 with his
brother, John
Hardaway. John died in or before 1660 and left his brother James his land.
James gave it to:
His son, John Hardaway who got land "Kimages" from
father James in 1664.
John Hardaway married Frances Harris, daughter of Thomas Harris.

John Hardaway's son, Thomas Hardaway b ca 1685 married Jane
Stith. She
was the daughter of Lt Col Drury Stith and Susanna Bathhurst, the son of Major
John Stith and his wife Jane. English Lost Va records show that 288A of Thomas
Hardaway was surveyed by Robert Bolling Jr Nov 25, 1705. Chas City Co, Va.

Joseph Hardaway, son of Thomas and Jane, nee Stith, was born
March 9,
1727/28. He married Anne Hall (b 1727) June 22, 1745. She was daughter of John
Hall and Anne Bolling.

Drury Hardaway, son of Joseph and Anne, nee Hall, was born
August 13,
1756 and died in 1816. He married his cousin Anne Stith (b 1757 d 1831) in
March 23, 1779. She was the daughter of Richard Stith and Lucy Hall.

Their son Thomas Parsons Hardaway was born in 1797. He married
his cousin
Nancy Stith (b 1797). She was the daughhter of Joseph Stith and Nancy Cocke.

Their son James Leach Hardaway was born July 12, 1819 and died
Sept. 24,
1869. He married Margaret Jane Cain in 1859.

Their daughter was Louisa Adalisa Hardaway who married Charles
Lee
Scott.

HARDAWAY, _____________

Children:
1. James Hardaway
to Va before 1654
md ??
1. John Hardaway
2. John Hardaway
to Va before 1650 d by Dec 3, 1660
md ??
1. daughter?
brother of John Hardaway

son of Thomas Parsons - Nancy Stith
Estie Stith Crabbe wrote that Ezra Hardaway, son of James Leach
Hardaway's
brother William, said what a fine man "Uncle Jim" Hardaway was and how
generous he was.
Ezra had been a dentist in Carthage, Missouri, and a pillar of the
Southern Methodist Church there. In 1954, when he was over 90, he jokingly
said "Yes, the Hardaway Tree is a big one; it has grown and grown with age,
and now Estie is going around gathering up all the nuts and my kids are the
nuts."

James Leach Hardaway died when he was 50. He had married Martha Ann
Mary
Howell just short of his 21st birthday. She was 19. Their first child, Nancy
Elizabeth, died as a child. They moved to Arkansas in 1842, perhaps to be near
her parents. His oldest son, Thomas, died during the Civil War of measles in
prison camp in Ohio when he was 22. His second son died at age 11.
William Buckner Hardaway died of tuberculosis at age 30, never married.
His beloved wife, Martha, died when she was 30, leaving her 3 boys who were 7,
5 and 2. He married Elizabeth Pawley in June 1853, a year and a half after
Martha died, She was 20. But death claimed her before they had been married 5
years. She had one daughter, Martha Ellen, who later married and went to
Missouri, then Texas.
His son, James Hunter, as noted, died at age 11 in January,
1858. In
August that same year he married again, this time to Margaret Cain, 26. He was
39. James and Margaret had two sons, Jesse and Henry, and two daughters,
Louisa and Margaret. Henry was born just two months before his brother Thomas
died in prison. James died before his daughter Margaret was three.